The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Best Of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (2LP)
COMPILATION
The Butterfield Blues Band [click here to see more vinyl featuring The Butterfield Blues Band]
Harmonica, Guitar, Flute, Piano, Vocals – Paul Butterfield
Baritone Saxophone – Trevor Lawrence (D1 to D3)
Bass – Fred Beckmier (D1), Jerome Arnold (A1 to C2)
Bass, Cello, Vocals – Rod Hicks (D1 to D3)
Bass, Vocals – Bugsy Maugh (C3 to C5)
Congas – Big Black (D3)
Congas, Bongos – Bobby Hall (D3)
Drums – Billy Davenport (B1 to B5), Dennis Whitted (D3), George Davidson (D2), Sam Lay (A1 to A6, C1, C2)
Drums, Congas, Percussion, Vocals – Phil Wilson (C3 to D1)
Guitar, Piano, Organ – Buzzy Feiten (D1)
Guitar, Vocals – Ralph Wash (D2, D3)
Organ, Piano, Keyboards – Mark Naftalin (A1 to C3), Nafty Markham (C4, C5)
Piano – Jerry Ragovoy (D1)
Piano, Keyboards – Ted Harris (D1, D2)
Rhythm Guitar, Guitar – Elvin Bishop (A1 to C5)
Slide Guitar, Guitar – Mike Bloomfield (A1 to B4)
Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Dave Sanborn (C3 to D1, D3)
Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Tambourine, Mandolin – Gene Dinwiddie (C3 to D3)
Trumpet – Steve Madaio (D1 to D3)
Trumpet, Piano – Keith Johnson (C3 to D1)
2 LPs, gatefold cover
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Rainbo Records
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Elektra
Engineered & mixed by : Bruce Botnick (D3), Eddie Youngblood (D1), Fritz Richmond (D3), Joe Zagarino (D1), Marc Harmon (D3), Mark Abramson (B4 to C2), Paul Rothchild (A6, B4 to C2), Ray Thompson (D2), Todd Rundgren (D2)
Produced by Jerry Ragovoy (D1), John Court (C3 to C5), Mark Abramson (B4 to C2), Paul Rothchild (A6, B4 to C2, D3), Todd Rundgren (D2)
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1972
Reissued in 2013
Tracks:
Side A:
- Born In Chicago
- Shake Your Money-Maker
- Mellow Down Easy
- Our Love Is Drifting
- Mystery Train
- Look Over Yonders Wall
Side B:
- East-West
- Walkin' Blues
- Get Out Of My Life, Woman
- Mary, Mary
Side C:
- Spoonful
- One More Mile
- One More Heartache
- Last Hope's Gone
- In My Own Dream
Side D:
- Love March
- Driftin' and Driftin'
- Blind Leading the Blind
Reviews :
"Though their luster had faded by 1972, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band had already earned their measure of immortality by first popularizing and then pushing the boundaries of the blues. This influential outfit recorded two acknowledged classics, their eponymous debut and the subsequent East-West, which account for the first two sides of Golden Butter. Here you'll find the straight-ahead Chicago blues of their debut ("Born in Chicago," "Mellow Down Easy," "Look Over Yonders Wall") and the prescient psychedelic blues-rock of their second effort ("East-West," "Mary, Mary"). The last two sides of this compilation draw from the Elektra anthology What's Shakin' ("Spoonful," "One More Mile"), a pair of tracks each from their third and fourth albums, and a song from each of their last three albums. Delivered in chronological order, Golden Butter offers an accurate miniature of the band's unraveling from blues ambassadors to innovators to increasingly irrelevant icons. Yet if the band's fire burned briefly, it burned brightly, casting a shadow that remained visible throughout the decade in the music of Cream, Steve Miller Band, and many others. And even toward the end of their career, the band had an authentic understanding of the blues that few could match (a point underscored here with a live version of "Driftin' and Driftin'"). Golden Butter has yet to be released on CD, Elektra electing instead to release a new double-disc retrospective, An Anthology -- The Elektra Years. Both compilations are good enough to plant the seeds of hero worship in listeners' heads and spur them on to dig deeper into Butterfield." AllMusic Review by Dave Connolly
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 , Discogs : 4,13 / 5